SE-0380: `if` and `switch` expressions

[jeremy]

@sspringer

What then about removing … ? … : … in favor of if … else … ?

That was discussed above, and rejected.

[esummers (Eric)]

You are missing the parentheses { }(). Between looking like a function and using the editor to inspect types, it should be clear.

[hborla (Holly Borla)]

Thank you everyone for the lively and constructive review discussion! The proposal has been accepted with modifications.

[Accepted with modifications] SE-0380: `if` and `switch` expressions

The review of SE-0380: if and switch expressions ran from December 7th to December 30th. Feedback was generally positive; many reviewers noted that the usability of if expressions in other languages is missed in Swift, and selection statements producing a single value in each branch is a common pattern across their Swift code. Most of the discussion focused on whether the narrow scope of the proposal is an acceptable resting place for if and switch expressions. Overall, the Language Workgroup b…

Holly Borla
Review Manager